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Bottled Water
John Cross made this Freedom of Information request to Birmingham City Council
The request was successful.
From: John Cross
2 May 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please tell me how much Birmingham City Council spent on the
purchase of bottled water in the last financial year.
Yours faithfully,
John Cross
Birmingham City Council
5 May 2009
Dear Mr Cross
Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information
Thank you for your recent enquiry for information held by the Council under
the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. We acknowledge
receipt of your request dated 2nd May 2009 which was received in our office
on 5th May 2009 and we will be touch with you again in due course.
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Birmingham City Council
12 May 2009
Dear Sir,
I refer to your request dated 2nd May 2009 and can inform you that during
the financial year of April 2008 to March 2009, the amount spent by
Birmingham City Council on bottled water was as follows:-
18.5Ltr Bottles = £51,070.71
11.0Ltr Bottles = £ 2,272.29
These figures exclude any amount spent by schools as the Schools' budgets
are outside of the control of the City Council.
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Corporate Information Manager,
Mr Malkiat Thiarai,
Birmingham City Council.
Corporate Freedom of Information/Data Protection Unit ICF
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Birmingham.
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Please quote reference number FOI2949
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Yours faithfully,
Chris Jones.
Corporate Procurement Services.
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Richard Taylor left an annotation (27 May 2009)
An article arising from this response has appeared in the Birmingham Mail:
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmi...
John Cross left an annotation (28 May 2009)
Great news, thank you to Richard for bringing this to my attention.
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Richard Taylor left an annotation (17 May 2009)
"The country can't afford this public sector extravagance and lunacy. It has to stop. Use the taps."
Cllr Tilsey replied saying:
"This is not bottled water as in litre bottles, is is water for water coolers, which every office in the country has."
He appears to believe that this makes it somehow less scandalous. I disagree, and in any case the response made clear this was large (18.5L and 11L) bottles. He does however appear aware this is unacceptable as he added:
"We are switching to machines that are connected to the main water supply, then is cooled. Hope this sets the record straight."
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